Combined kitchen and ikoning table



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J.v00s. Y l COMBINED .KITQHE-N AND IRONING TABLE.

Patenfed Aug. 1, 1898.

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.IOHANNA VOOS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED KITCHEN AND IRONING TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,597, dated August 1, 1893.

Application filed January 31I 1893. Serial No. 460,296. (No inodel.)

durable in construction, and arranged for con-A venient use either as an ordinary kitchen table or as an ironing table, thus dispensing with the use of the cumbersome ironing board.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement as extended; and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same closed, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The improved table is provided with a frame A, supported onsuitable legs B and carrying atable top O, to the rear edge of which is hinged a leaf D, by means of hinges E, the leaf being the same in size as the table top C. The sides of the leaf D are provided with legs F connected to the leaf by hinges G, so that the legs can be folded in the cut-out portion of the sides of the leaf to form an unbroken surface on the top of the leaf when the latter is folded upon the table top C, see Fig. 2.

The hinges G are near the outer end of the leaf D, so that when the latter is extended and the legs areswung downward the said leaf is properly supported and extends in line with the table top C. The top surface of the latter carries a padding H made of any approved material, and a like padding I-I is formedon the leaf D, so that the two paddings H and H form an unbroken ironing surface when the leaf D is extended. When the leaf is folded upon the table top C, as shown in Fig. 2, then the padding H rests on the padding H.

In the front of the frameA 1s mounted to slide transverselyin suitable bearings an ironing board I which,\when drawn tout, serves to let down, as illustrated in Fig. l.

conveniently support shirts, skirts, and the like during the operation of ironing them. In

one end of the table frame A is fitted to slide a board .I which, when extended as shown in Fig. l, forms a bracket or stand for the sad A box K is supported at its ends on two chains or ropes L and L which extend upward and pass through apertures C in the table top C, the middle part of the chain extending over the table top when the box K is This box serves to receive and store sad irons or other articles and is adapted to be drawn up under the table top C when not in use, the operator then taking hold of the middle upper parts of the chains L and L and pulling on the sanne so as to draw the box K upward. When the latter is in an uppermost position the upper ends of the chains are passed over the ends of the table top C in a downward and inward direction, to finally hook the ends on hooks N secured to the bottom of the box K, whereby the latter is locked in an uppermost position, see Fig. 2.

It will be seen that a table of the construction shown and described can be readily used as an ordinary kitchen table when the leaf D is folded on the table top C, and it can also be readily changed to an ironing table by extending the leaf D and supporting it in an extended position by the legs K and hinges E, as shown in Fig. 1 and above described.

When the table is extended, then the paddings H and H form a complete, unbroken ironing surface sufficiently large for all ironing purposes.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A table provided with a box supported on chains from the table top, and hooks held on the box and adapted to be engaged by the said chains to lock the box in place on the under side of the table top, substantially as shown and described.

JOHANNA VOOS.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. HosTEE, C. SEDGWICK. 

